Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of contents 5
3. Editor’s note 7
4. Introduction 8
5. Crystallizations
6. Chapter 1. Marshall Hodgson’s Civilizational Analysis of Islam: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives 23
7. Chapter 2. The Middle Period: Islamic Axiality in the Age of Afro-Eurasian Transcultural Hybridity 48
8. Chapter 3. Identity Formation in World Religions: A Comparative Analysis of Christianity and Islam 68
9. Chapter 4. The Emergence of Islam as a Case of Cultural Crystallization: Historical and Comparative Reflections 95
10. Crossroads and Turning Points
11. Chapter 5. Revolution in Early Islam: The Rise of Islam as a Constitutive Revolution 125
12. Chapter 6. ´Abdallah b. Salam: Egypt, Late Antiquity and Islamic Sainthood 158
13. Chapter 8. Islam and the Axial Age 220
14. Cultural and Institutional Dynamics
15. Chapter 9. Islam and the Path to Modernity: Institutions of Higher Learning and Secular and Political Culture 241
16. Chapter 10. Global Ages, Ecumenic Empires and Prophetic Religions 258
17. Chapter 11. Reflexivity, Praxis, and “Spirituality”: Western Islam and Beyond 279
18. Chapter 12. Public Spheres and Political Dynamics in Historical and Modern Muslim Societies 306
19. Abstracts 319
20. Contributors 327
21. Backmatter 332